Helena Puig Larrauri is strategy lead & co-founder of Build Up. She has over a decade of experience advising and working with civil society actors and multilateral organizations in conflict contexts and polarized environments. She specializes in the integration of digital technology and innovation processes to peace processes and civic dialogues, and in understanding how conflict drivers show up in digital spaces. She has published and spoken on these subject matters extensively. She is also an advisor on digital technologies and mediation to the United Nations Mediation Support Unit and an Ashoka fellow. She previously served on the boards of Elva Community Engagement, International Alert, Impact Hub Barcelona, and the Standby Task Force and currently serves on the boards of Public Sentiment and Digital Peace Now. She holds a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University and a M.A. in public policy (economics) from Princeton University.